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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I’ve not read what Epstein said.
I’m only working with what you’ve said: Nothing.
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I'm not sure what your problem is. You posted an article. When people do that, it's usually because they think other people should read it. I started to read it. The first paragraph made claims about the virus's mortality rate that are disproved by the numbers of people dying in New York City. That's not a straw man, and it's not sophistry. It's middle-school math.
You piss me when you start bullshitting about how the disease isn't all that deadly and how we need to open back up ("carefully!") to save the economy. My wife goes off to hospital every day to save people's lives who are dying from this disease that is not the like the flu she sees every year. If we open the economy back up and the hospitals get overwhelmed, healthcare workers (among others) will pay the price.
I don't need a lecture from you about the economic costs of what we're going through. Our business is down 95% from a few months ago and we have laid a bunch of people off. I totally get it.
You've said a whole bunch of other things, and it gets hard to figure what point you're making, so I stopped responding to that thread. But if you're calling me an oracle because two months ago I said this was going to be a shitstorm when you were saying it was like the flu, thanks -- I appreciate the props.
